Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maintaining a stable anti-Communist regime. However, the Argentine military has a remarkably flexible definition of stable government. The military will hand over the government to the civilians again only when they are convinced that the workers are finished with their revolutionary ideology -- only when the workers have a firm platform which satisfies the industrialists and the petit bourgeois, and which pays off the military...
...Richardson said yesterday that his firm had not been responsible for the inspections and he did not think it would have to pay. He said that another of the defendants in the suit, Charles T. Main, Inc., an engineering firm, was responsible for inspections...
...constant strains during Romney's life have been his firm Mormon convictions and his knack for selling. As a Mormon missionary in Britain for two years, as an aluminum salesman in Los Angeles, as an Alcoa lobbyist in Washington during the New Deal, as chief spokesman for the Automobile Manufacturers Association during World War II, he was an intense, determined seller...
...clearly irritates the press and Republican leaders to hear such irresolution, even though they realize that a firm stand against the bombing, for example, would open Romney to severe attacks from hawkish rivals within his Party. A Washington reporter, after a long talk with Romney, offered, "Deep down, he's really very shallow." It is now a standing joke...
...With the Aura. To take over its top titles of chairman and chief economist, the firm chose James O'Leary, 52, longtime, well regarded research chief of the Life Insurance Association of America. For Edie, which manages funds worth roughly $2 billion and includes the Guggenheim Foundation, R.C.A. and Sears, Roebuck among its clients, the appointment promises a change in manner as well as mind...